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It’s that simple, I have served my country, and I believe I am called again to serve because Kind has proved that over and over again that he serves his political party, not this district. Van Orden throws his hands up in the air, “I have had enough. 18 happened, I was going to run: That is the day Kind joined the rest of the Democrats in the House to vote to impeach the president for political reasons.” None of the intensity, or purpose, has changed a stitch from the man who grew up with his mother and brother in abject poverty and went on to serve the country for over 26 years, retiring in November of 2014 as a Navy SEAL senior chief with five combat deployments.

11.ĭon’t let his new bucolic life mislead you. If no candidate achieves 60%, then there is no endorsement.Įither way, the state primary is Aug. To earn the endorsement, which is basically the imprimatur of party officialdom, the candidate needs to get 60% support among the delegates. Garske, along with former governor Scott Walker, endorsed Van Orden this week. A third candidate, John Garske, dropped out from the race late last week.

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Van Orden is competing against public relations professional Jessi Ebben. On Saturday, the Republican Party will be holding its district caucus, a process which includes candidate endorsements. “I said I don't care if this is not how you run a political campaign: We have to help people,” he said in his typical blunt way, and that is how his campaign began. His team initially balked, saying this is not how you run a political campaign. We're just not going to do this what we're going to do is we're going to start something called Neighbors Helping Neighbors of the Wisconsin 3rd District.' “I told my team we have to stop everything we are doing, like sending drafts of fundraising letters,” he said. Van Orden’s announcement came in the early days of the pandemic crisis.

Kind has represented the sprawling district in the House since 1997 in 2016, Donald Trump won the district by 4.5 percentage points. Today, Van Orden lives in Hager City, Wisconsin, with his wife Sara on a small farm, is retired from the military, pursuing a law degree - because why not? - and is running for the Republican nomination for Congress in the state's 3rd District to try to take on Democrat Ron Kind in the fall.

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